I'm trying to keep a log of all the things we cook which taste really lovely. You know what it's like: you tweak and tweak a recipe until it's barely recognisable and then wonder how you used to make it. And it will also save a lot of time and bits of paper when it comes to sharing those recipes with friends.

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Banana Bread

Since discovering Sheldon Cooper, Annie and Drew will now eat banana bread.

Mash 5 – 6 very ripe bananas with a potato masher.

Use an electric whisk to cream together 125g soft butter, 50g dark muscovado sugar and 75g golden caster sugar until light and fluffyish.

Add two large eggs and beat again.

It’s banana time: add them to the bowl and beat together. Don’t worry if it looks a bit ugly.

Now the dry stuff: mix 200g plain flour with 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda and a teaspoon of ground cinnamon. A little ground nutmeg is lovely too. Mix this gently into the wet mixture until no flour is visible.

Line two 7 – 8″ round tin with those big tin liners that look like muffin tins. If you don’t know what I mean, look here: